dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
tagged (esp. with a price); notorious; infamous; double-dyed
business; trade; operations; sales
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
on the road; on the street; in the street; on the way
transport; transportation
coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart
period of time; time slot; time zone
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
a long time (since the last time); first in a long time
function; facility; faculty; feature
one round; one circuit; one revolution; one lap; one turn
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
ago; since; before; previous
registration; accession; register; entry; record
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
proof; evidence; certificate; license; to testify (usu. Christian religious context); enlightenment
genuine article; real thing; real deal
one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives)
beginning; outset; first; onset
guardian; protector; patron; parent
(how) many times; (how) often
government office; public office
to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other
corresponding to; being applicable to; being relevant to; coming under; falling under; fulfilling (requirements)
request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person
inspection; examination; survey
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
dimness; obscurity; indistinctness; unclear; unintelligible
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it
mechanism; organization; organisation
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
secrecy; highly classified information
so to speak; so to call it; as it were